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5 hours ago ago from TRAIL BLAZERS

Something's missing from the Texas governor's official state website. Gone from Rick Perry's biography is any mention of the Trans-Texas Corridor, the beleaguered toll-road project the governor once touted as a crowning jewel accomplishment of his tenure in office. Scrubbed is the paragraph about how Perry expanded the children's health insurance program -- a popular program with Democrats but not so much with Republicans whose votes the ...

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13 hours ago ago from Compare Instant Free Auto Insurance Quotes Online

There was much talk about the possible inclusion in the public version of the bill on health reform. Despite the controversy, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to ensure public health insurance programs, designed to compete with private health insurance schemes, is included but there's a catch. The new provision allows States to adopt legislation that excludes them from the public version. With this strategy, Democrats in both houses of ...

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Vetta s life was hard from the start he never knew his parents. He was a baby when he was abandoned on the streets of Cambodia. Taken to a government-run orphanage, he grew up lacking fundamental support. When he became frustrated, he would turn aggressive. He would rock back and forth, spin and twirl objects, and bang his head for comfort. Those caregivers in the orphanage, could not understand him, they would swear at him, hit him, call him ...

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Santa's Workshop? Or the Laurel House Conference Room?

14 hours ago ago from Laurel House Blog

It's beginning to look a lot like you-know-who's workshop here at Laurel House, as our conference room is filled more than a sleigh with brand new toys. Thanks to our generous donors, we have an abundance of toys to give to the children in our housing and counseling programs during the holiday season. Already, the children have enjoyed several festive events in celebration of Hanukkah, Christmas, and soon, Kwanzaa. We now have ...

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Over 60 Diverse SC Organizations Sign On to Protect Children’s Health Insurance Program through Medicaid

10 hours ago ago from South Carolina Healthcare Voices

Columbia, SC – Focus on Kids, a coalition of over sixty diverse organizations, has come together to urge members of the South Carolina General Assembly to make children’s healthcare their number one priority in the upcoming legislative session. Children’s organizations, faith-based groups, and other advocates have banded together to ensure Medicaid is fully funded in order to protect and improve the lives of our state’s most valuable asset, ...

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2 hours ago ago from The New York Times

WASHINGTON In the great health care debate of 2009, President Obama has cast himself as a cold-eyed pragmatist, willing to compromise in exchange for votes. Now ideology an uprising on the Democratic left is smacking the pragmatic president in the face. Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Senator Bernard Sanders, on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, says he is struggling with how to vote. A blog from The New York Times that ...

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Will Marshall: Will Liberals Really Kill Health Reform?

9 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

The never-ending story of health care reform took another turn for the weird this week. It began with liberals working themselves into a lather over Sen. Joe Lieberman's threat to scuttle reform unless the Medicare buy-in was dropped. Now Howard Dean, liberal paladin and former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is campaigning openly to kill a Democratic president's top domestic priority. Vermont's Sen. Bernie Sanders, the ...

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1 day ago ago from Washington Post - Business

The House pushed through a last-minute flurry of legislation Wednesday, including a $636 billion Pentagon funding bill, a short-term rise in the nation's debt limit, and an extension of unemployment and health benefits for millions of jobless Americans. This Story But Democrats put off until next year some of the thorniest political issues facing the chamber. While the House passed on party lines a largely symbolic ...

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Bills Pass on Debt and War Funds

22 hours ago ago from The New York Times

WASHINGTON The House on Wednesday narrowly approved a short-term, $290 billion increase in federal borrowing power, setting the stage for a major fight over national fiscal policy in 2010. Stephen Crowley/The New York Times The House worked on Wednesday to finish for the year. Above, staff members and others in a corridor outside the chamber. Roll Calls Blog As the House finished ...

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Kim Strassel: Democrats on the Health-Care Precipice

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